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Congratulations to MFAs Carleigh Baker and Karla Comanda! Karla Comanda is the winner of the Asian Canadian Writers Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award, based upon her poetry thesis and work with Professor Emerita Rhea Tregebov. She has been featured in LitFest: Edmonton’s Nonfiction Festival. Her works have appeared in Contemporary Verse 2: Poetry Lives Here, Glass […]

Congratulations to MFA Alumnus Marcus Youssef, who has been shortlisted for a Siminovitch Prize for playwriting, the largest national theatre award in Canada. The Siminovitch Prize awards its winner $100,000, rotating over a three-year cycle to alternate honouring professional directors, playwrights, and designers. Finalists get $5,000. The prize will be awarded at a ceremony on November 6 […]

We’re delighted to welcome a group of innovative and exciting writers to visit UBC Creative Writing this fall. Courtesy of the Arnold & Nancy Cliff Endowment, CRWR regularly brings working writers to visit classes and consult with students in our Minor, BFA and MFA programs. Sarah Glidden: October 3-11 Sarah Glidden was born in 1980 in […]

Congratulations to Joint Film / CRWR MFA Christie Will Wolf, whose movie Harvest Love premieres this weekend on the Hallmark Channel. Christie developed this film in the Creative Writing 506 workshop, and is credited as both the writer and director.